in reply to Question regarding variable scope

I've observed the same result when I declare the variable with our as well. It seems like the foreach loop is using local internally. Is that the case?

Take a look at perldoc perlsyn (the section on Foreach) for more information but the short answer is yes.

and is there a way to get the behavior I'm looking for, short of using some kind of intermediate variable?

As Roger shows above just change your looping variable, and set $black_player to the value you before you exit the loop.

-enlil

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